Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is, the people for whom he has a genial contempt keep upsetting his equilibrium. A harmless pleasantry to the maid about her marriage prospects is rewarded with an unexpectedly bitter rebuke about men. A brief turn on the dance floor with a young woman results in a discomfiting discussion of Irish patriotism. Finally, the innocuous singing of a melancholy Irish air leads Gretta down a bitter path of memory that results in a crushing revelation, of a past life and an unforgotten lover who died for love...
...along in the dark through the tunnel that runs from Weld Hall to Sever Hall. "If you ever walk through a dark tunnel, you can't walk straight," he says. "It's a very strange feeling. You start reeling towards the wall. You lose your sense of orientation, of equilibrium." He finally made it, though, and the next time he went through the passage he made sure he found the light switch...
...stupor after lunch. Doors slam; people hop out from bushes and then back behind them; Platonov carries on simultaneous conversations, and the wrong people hear him. This might be French bedroom farce, except that lives are at stake. Whatever Platonov decides, his little world will not reach equilibrium again...
Within that range, totalitarianism may be finding its new equilibrium: aspiration to totality but with a concession of some social space. This permits effective control of society at a level of violence and vigilance that, unlike Stalin's or Hitler's terror, is sustainable indefinitely...
...Producers as well as consumers should adopt policies that shun drastic interference in the market forces which may disturb the much sought for long-term stability," he said. "It is only through the acheivement of long-term free market equilibrium that stability can be [attained...